Posted on 12/23/2015 8:25:48 AM PST by o_1_2_3__
And what are their kids gonna do in 10-20 years?
I got one of those at home. Difference is she is 22, earning enough to live on her own and we are encouraging her to stay until she has a reasonable amount of cash in the bank and she finishes school.
I think this is different from the kids with masters degrees making $7 an hour working at Starbucks.
It’s just a guess but I think that in some of the european nations, multi-generation households are more of a cultural norm. Again, guessing. It was here once, too, wasn’t it?
We had to practically evict our youngest son from the house. I think he is happier on his own.
In most cultures young people don’t leave their parents’ home until marriage. In Arab societies after marriage the new couple movies into an additions to the groom’s parents’ house (in the town or city that could be an apartment building). In other cultures the groom joins the bride’s “tribe”. It’s my personal observation that taking off for school and never returning to live with parents (to take care of them in their old age) is a British and American cultural practice of recent vintage.
Glad to see that the US is falling in line with the EU ... not.
Sort of a return to Medieval Times.
With the way globalization is going, no one will have a home to move into in twenty years except for the few employed beyond a slave labor existence.
If we continue down the path of full globalization (no borders, social, political and economic), there will be a lot of starvation and early deaths.
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